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How can this be anything other than a pick? Toni Morrison writes about American Blackness and whiteness in literature. Calling up classics by Willa Cather, Poe, Hemingway, Faulkner.
Many of the pieces she discusses I had not heard of (Cathers Sapphira and The Slave Girl). I fear many of the issues she brought up in this 1992 work still plague us today
And incredibly interesting (and short) read to think more about lit + race in an intelligent way

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#DynamicDs Day 24: #Dark - I devoured this book.

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This has been hanging out on my tbr shelves for a long time, and I finally dove in. Written by a white woman who works as an antiracism educator and trainer, the book focuses on the myths and false ideologies that keep white people from being able to acknowledge their own internal racism and be able to confront and discuss racism. A lot of gut checks while reading this one as she pushes the reader into a productive and necessary discomfort!